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Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
Category: Fiction
The highly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'. On an ill-fated art expedition of the Southern Shan State in Burma, eleven Americans leave their Floating Island Resort for a Christmas morning tour - and disappear. Through the twists of fat ...Show more
Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
Category: Fiction
This is a pre-read/used book. Condition: Good. Minor yellowing on pages, creasing to pages. Cover and spine have creasing. A San Fran socialite planned the holiday of a lifetime with friends but, murdered a few days beforehand, she watches from the spirit world as they are taken hostage deep in the ...Show more
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Category: Fiction
Ruth, a ghostwriter of self-help books, is losing the ability to speak up for herself. Her ailing mother Luling tries to hold on to the evaporating past, writing of her girlhood in a Chinese mountain village. Set in modern San Francisco and pre-war China, Tan's new novel is the mesmerising tale of a mo ...Show more
The Bonesetter's Daughter - A Novel by Amy Tan
Category: Classics
""As compelling as Tan's first bestseller, The Joy Luck Club. . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan."-The Philadelphia Inquirer " An] absorbing tale of the mother-daughter bond . . . this book sing s] with emotion and insight."-People Ruth Young and her wid ...Show more
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Category: Fiction
Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from the author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'. Olivia Yee is only five years old when Kwan, her older sister from China, comes to live with the family and turns her life upside down, bombarding her day and night with ghostly stori ...Show more
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Category: Fiction
This novel, told from the viewpoints of four Chinese mothers and their four American-Chinese daughters, examines the nature of the mother-daughter relationship, and the problems of cultural identity the characters face.
The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
Category: Fiction
From the brilliant author of 'The Valley of Amazement', a family is tested by time and truth in this remarkable novel. Pearl Louie Brandt has a terrible secret which she tries desperately to keep from her mother, Winne Louie. And Winnie has long kept her own secrets - about her past and the confusing ci ...Show more
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
Category: Fiction
An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America's best-loved novelists. 'When I began writing this history, I let go of my doubts. I trusted the ghosts of my imagination. They showed me the hundred secret senses. And what I wrote is ...Show more
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
Category: Fiction
A new novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club'. In fin de siecle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Both C ...Show more
Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
Category: Fiction
An expansive, heartbreaking novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club'. In turn-of-the-century Shanghai, Violet Minturn is raised by her American mother, the mistress of the city's most renowned courtesan house. When the revolution comes, a cruel deception forces Violet to ...Show more
Where the Past Begins - A Writer's Memoir by Amy Tan
Category: Biography
From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory. In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan is at her most intimate in revealing ...Show more